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Chapter 12: Life at Home: Families and Relationships: The Changing Family

Today’s family is certainly not the same as it was in the past. We are more individualistic today, divorce rates are higher, there are many different family forms that are now considered the norm, and the list goes on.

Some people feel that today’s family is in decline and society in endangered because of this; this would be a functionalist point of view. On the other hand, conflict and feminist sociologists disagree with functionalists. They argue that changing family forms do not necessarily represent deterioration in the quality of